(516) 319-7091 hello@bni7.com

Multi-Year Business

Leadership Team


President
Paul Cole

Vice President
Marc Silverman

Secretary/Treasurer
Jessica Allen

Education Coordinator
Keith Underwood

Membership Committee
Agnieszka Chomicz
Robert Smith

Visitor Hosts
Bill Allen
Jason Kapoor

Webmaster & Zoom
Marc Silverman

Story by Bryan Adams: In the mid-2000’s, one of the Executive Directors gave me a referral to a real estate agent. I noticed that she was getting consistent coverage in the NY Times. I told her she needn’t worry about hiring me for publicity right now – that she was doing great so far. But when things start to slow down and dry up on the coverage, we should speak.

So a few times a year for the next 8-10 years I would drop her a note. In 2012, the agent asked me to meet her team manager regarding doing publicity for her real estate team. We went through the process, but I was not hired because the real estate agency decided to devote more resources for her team’s publicity, which I thought was smart since she would not have to pay for an outside publicity consultant.

But the team manager was so impressed by me, that she referred me to a bookkeeper who was consulting with a wealth manager who was looking at hiring a publicist. That wealth manager hired me, based on the word of this bookkeeper, who I didn’t know at the time.

Two years after that, the wealth manager introduced me to another woman, who was getting a nonprofit off the ground. And I have been working with them since late 2014. In short, I got two multi-year pieces of closed business about 10 years after the first referral from which I was not hired.

Bryan R. Adams
FAB Communications

BNI 7 Members


Agnieszka Chomicz
Relocation Services

Bill Allen
Property & Casualty Insurance

Bobby Soler
Financial Advisor

Caitlin Kelley
Nonprofits / Powering Potential

Chirag Mody
Mortgage Loans

Dominick Marchese
General Contracting

Howard Globus
IT Consulting

James Rubinowitz
Personal Injury Attorney

Jason Kapoor
Title Services

Jessica Allen
Bookkeeping Services

Keith Underwood
Life/Disability/LTC Insurance

Manuel Cordero
Architecture

Marc Silverman
Web Development & Hosting

Patrick Slutzky
Banking Services

Paul Cole
Residential Real Estate

Ralph Kassin
Certified Public Accountant

Robert Smith
Real Estate Attorney

Starita Ansari
Nonprofits / The New 3Rs

Leadership Team


President
Paul Cole

Vice President
Marc Silverman

Secretary/Treasurer
Jessica Allen

Education Coordinator
Keith Underwood

Membership Committee
Agnieszka Chomicz
Robert Smith

Visitor Hosts
Bill Allen
Jason Kapoor

Webmaster & Zoom
Marc Silverman